A1308 crash in Mid Suffolk on 4 October 1985 at 16:09 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A1308 in Mid Suffolk at 16:09 on Friday 4 October 1985. The 17-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Oct 1985
- Friday, 16:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.18625, longitude 0.99816, in the IP14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stowmarket.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985373171500
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1308
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 March 1983.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1308 in Mid Suffolk, 25 March 1983
At the same spotRef 1983373050800
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A1308 in Mid Suffolk, 8 October 1991
At the same spotRef 1991373344300
Slight
Volkswagen ID3 crash on an unclassified road in Mid Suffolk, 10 December 2025
7 m awayRef 2025371681082
Slight
Volvo 245 crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 28 May 1997
10 m awayRef 199737B001154
Serious
Ford Galaxy crash on an unclassified road in Mid Suffolk, 4 May 2007
10 m awayRef 200737B027970
Serious
Lorry crash on the A1308 in Mid Suffolk, 3 November 1980
10 m awayRef 1980373189300
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 17, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 1985373171500 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Suffolk road accident statistics for 1985.